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Thank you all for the help all of that advice was spot on.
For the sake of anyone else reading this looking for info:
I got her to her vet. She initially didn't think antibiotics were necessary, just some NSAIDs for inflamation. But she...
Okay, yes, that matches up with what I've just been reading, I will do that.
Do you think it makes sense to try to buy antibiotics to give her myself (I think my tractor supply sells them)? Especially if I can't get her seen short notice?
I found some at Walmart and was able to feed it to her pretty easily by crumbling it and washing it down with some water.
Thank you so much for your help, hopefully I can get a vet appointment quickly. She has been drinking a decent amount at least.
Thank you for the reply! Im going to call the vet she goes to in the morning. It's dark right now so she's sleeping, can you tell me if it makes sense to give her the calcium citrate right now? Maybe by syringe feeding?
So on Thursday my pet chicken layed her first egg of the year. Usually she lays every 2 days or so, and on Saturday she acted like she wanted to lay another and so was hiding out in her nest.
But she didn't lay anything, and I found some mucussy poop (that I'm now thinking could have been an...
The other week the flock had a lice problem. One chicken was broody at the time and had the worst of it. Was even limping because of it.
We replaced all the bedding, diatomaceous earth spread around, poultry dust treatment, and it cleared away instantly and hasn't come back. That chicken and...